[Woman] Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime,
Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator...
and vanished.
He awoke to find himself trapped in the past,
facing mirror images that were not his own...
and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.
His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time,
who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear.
And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life,
striving to put right what once went wrong...
and hoping each time that his next leap...
will be the leap home.
[Woman Speaking Russian]
[Shutter Clicks]
[Russian]
I answered you in Russian.
You spoke to me in Russian and- and I answered you.
[Russian]
It's not a game, Marina.
Marina, am I speaking English or Russian?
I mean, right now I'm speaking English, right?
But now- [Russian]
I'm sorry.
You talk Russian. You talk English.
So do you. No.
Yes, you do. You're speaking English right now.
One, two words. That's three.
And " You talk English. You talk Russian." That's four more, seven.
And "no" is eight. You funny, Alik.
"You funny"- eight, nine, ten. [Chuckles]
How many more words do you know? [Russian]
No, in English. Yes,
no, hello, good-bye,
capitalists exploit the working class. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second.
Where did you learn that? You.
Me?
Oh, of course, me.
I guess your English is a lot better than my Russian.
[Chuckles] I am not a child! Don't speak to me like I am!
I'm sorry, Marina.
I don't know why I did that.
[Russian]
[Sam Thinking] Oh, my God.
What's happened to me?
Who have I leaped into?
[Gunshot] [Screams]
[Man Laughing]
Funny thing about bullets, huh? You can't call them back.
You don't want to call that one back. It's a V-bull.
[Gunshots] [Chuckles]
Looks like you're gonna qualify expert.
Who would have believed it of an air wing grunt.
Here.
You gonna make love to it or load it?
Wow. Wow?
- If I caught my thumb in it, that would have really hurt. - Just shoot.
- Now what's the problem? - How far is that?
- Yeah.
You know damn well how far it is. It's 500 yards.
- [Whistles] - Are you messin' with me, Private?
No, sir.
And don't call me "sir"! I ain't no frigging officer.
Now... shoot.
[With Mexican Accent] Hey, man, I love you too.
Hey, Gunny West told me you were a loudmouthed ass.
But I never thought anyone would be dumb enough to mess with me.
I'm sorry-
I'm sorry, Sergeant, l-
[Russian]
Russian? You speaking to me in Russian?
It's just a little slip of the tongue.
See I'm, uh, I'm studying Russian and-and-and some-sometimes it comes out.
You know what I'm studying? Huh?
The Three Stooges?
You have one more round. Shoot!
[Sam Thinking] I was a pretty good shot on the farm.
Bagged my share of squirrels with a.22 and deer with a.30-06.
But that was long ago and not at 500 yards.
- [Al] Did you take a deep breath? - [Gunshot]
- [Screams] - What are you trying to do, kill me?
Now what?
You startled me! What are you doing?
- [Al] I thought you heard the chamber door open and knew I was here. - You blaming me for jerking one off?
No, not you. I don't see nobody else standing here.
Yeah well, he does.
- [Sergeant] Maggie's drawers. - Maggie's drawers, that's a euphemism for that rag they're waving there.
It means you missed the target. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
218. That's too bad.
If you hadn't jerked off that last round, you would have made expert.
Sharpshooter is not bad, Sam.
Sign at the bottom, Oswald. Oswald?
That's your name, ain't it?
He's right, Sam. You've leaped into Lee Harvey Oswald.
Just a word of advice, Private.
You wanna ship home with all the body parts you came here with... zip your lip.
Aye, aye, Sergeant Beaner.
See you on liberty, Oswald.
[Al] Sam, are you out of your mind?
You can't talk to anybody like that, much less a marine sergeant.
I know, Al. I know. [Man] Cease fire! Cease fire!
Then why'd you do it? I didn't.
Excuse me. I heard you! You heard the words came out of my mouth, but I didn't say 'em.
You're scaring me, Sam. Well, you're not alone.
Maybe- Maybe this has something to do with leaping twice into the same person.
- What twice? - I leaped into Oswald in '63.
At least that's what the newspapers I was holding said it was, March of'63.
Well, how'd you know you were Oswald? Marina was taking my picture.
You know that famous picture with the rifle and the- and the newspapers.
That photograph is a fake.
Yeah. Oswald's face is superimposed on somebody else's body to frame him.
But Marina took it. How do you know she was Marina?
I called her Marina and- and she called me... Alik.
Well, there you see? You weren't Oswald.
All we have to do is ask Ziggy to trace the name Alik to anyone...
working at the C.I.A. or the F.B. - [Groans]
What? Alik was the name Oswald used in Russia.
And, uh, that's the name Marina used to call him.
But that doesn't mean she's the one that took the picture, and it doesn't mean that you were Oswald.
I was Oswald. How can you be so sure?
I can feel him in me. In you?
You know how there's always a little residual...
of the other person left behind in a leap?
You know, like a little of their knowledge or their personality...
or maybe even a little bit of their soul?
Oswald didn't leave a little anything in you, Sam.
When you leap into someone, you're still Dr. Sam Beckett,
with your personality, your knowledge and you-
Where'd you learn to fieldstrip an M-1?
I didn't.
[Gunshots]
I'm him, Al. I'm Lee Harvey Oswald.
No, you're not him! [Sighs]
Then how do you explain this, hmm?
All right. So you can fieldstrip an M-1. Big deal.
Thousands of kids learn to do that in boot camp. Yeah?
Yeah. Well, I didn't go to boot camp.
All right. So you got a little Lee Harvey Oswald in you. You can handle that.
What if I got a lot of Lee Harvey Oswald in me? Huh? I mean think about that.
Do you remember the leap when lightning struck us and we switched places?
Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
And I got some of your libido, right?
Yeah. And you still behaved like a prude.
What else was I supposed to do? I was a hologram. Well, it never stopped me.
If you could handle my sex drive, you can certainly handle a few of Lee Harvey Oswald's loose neurons.
Well, what if I can't handle it? Huh? I mean, what-
what if I assassinate the president? You're not gonna assassinate the president. This is '57.
That doesn't happen for another six years. Fifteen minutes ago it was six years from now.
And who's to say that's not gonna happen again...
in November with me at the Texas School Book Depository?
Good God, Al.
If that happened, I could stop the assassination.
If Oswald really was the assassin.
What do you mean if Oswald was really the assassin?
Well, there's a lot of people think that he was set up. Set up?
By whom? Could have been anybody.
Could've been the F.B.I., Secret Service, uh, C.I.A.,
the military, the Mafia, defense contractors, John Birchers.
You name it. They all had something to gain from Kennedy's death.
Al, we're talking about murdering the president of the United States.
Don't you remember all the conspiracy books and the movies?
No. But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday.
I was 10, and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor in the field behind the house.
All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us.
She ran up right to the fence and she was yelling and we thought it was because what we were doing.
But then she told us that the president had just been shot.
Al, if I leaped into Oswald to uncover a conspiracy, why didn't I stay in '63?
Maybe because it started here at Atsugi.
Atsugi? Japan.
This doesn't look likeJapan. Sam, military bases look the same the world over.
But you go out that gate, and you'll see it's Japan.
There's no doubt about it. It's very beautiful. It's serene.
And there's a lot of beautiful geishas.
Okay, Al.
Chip and I, uh, libertied once at a place called The Inn of the Black Pearl.
Uh-huh. And we would soak in these wood hot tubs with four naked-
You were saying that Atsugi is where the conspiracy started?
Uh, yeah. Well, the K.G.B. probably contacted Oswald somewhere around here.
Wait. You didn't mention the Russians. They were behind the assassination? That's one theory.
Another one is that Oswald was just pretending to be with the K.G.B. He was really with the C.I.A. or the F.B.I.
Wait. Wait. Wait. Why was the K.G.B. even interested in Oswald?
Are you kidding? Oswald was a radar operator with Macs-1.
He knew all the frequencies, all the codes, the intercept procedures.
He knew about Race Car.
Race Car, this is Coffee Mill. Squawk Two. Over.
Uh-oh. See? See what I'm saying?
That wasn't me, Al. That was Oswald.
D-D-Don't worry about it. I don't even-Where did that come from? That was Oswald.
Don't worry it. H-H-How did I know that?
You can handle it.
To tell you the truth, I'm not worried about it.
It's just that I don't know who's controlling who.
I mean, am I controlling Oswald or is he controlling me?
Sam, listen to me. Wait a second. That's the scary part.
We're going to uncover this conspiracy and change what happened in Dallas.
I feel it in my bones.
All you have to do- All you have to do is hang in there.
[Beeps]
[Sam Narrating] I prayed Al was right. At least part of me did.
[Jet Engine Roars]
[Man] Hidell, Alex James.
Private first class.
Serial number: 1522597.
- Hidell? You're saying your name is Hidell? - What are you, hard of hearing?
- [Beeping] - What's that?
Uh, it's a tape recorder. New model.
You won't need it. I've already told you...
everything I'm obliged to tell you under the rules of the Geneva Convention. Well, you're obliged to tell the truth.
1653230. That's your real serial number isn't it, Private Oswald?
That's no tape recorder.
So we both lied.
Who's Alex Hidell?
Oswald, Lee Harvey. Private first class.
Serial number: 1653230. You're not a prisoner of war.
All members of the proletariat are prisoners in the class struggle.
I thought you were a member of the Marine Corps.
My status as a marine does not alter my membership...
in the exploited and oppressed class into which I was born.
- I was joking. - I was not!
Take it easy, kid. I'm on your side.
- Then I'm free to leave? - Uh, no. Not exactly.
Then I'm a prisoner. Okay. All right. You're a prisoner of the proletariat and-
I'm a prisoner of the bourgeois and a member of the proletariat.
You don't know your Marx, do you?
After six years in the Hanoi Hilton, I tend to repress it.
- Where? - That's where I was held as a prisoner of war...
and where they didn't give a damn about the Geneva Convention.
Now were you ever approached by a foreign agent in Japan?
- That depends. - [Ziggy Beeps]
Hmm. Are you a foreign agent, Al?
That's your name, isn't it? Al.
How- How did I know your name?
You're part of an experiment- a new way of communicating through the mesons and neurons of the mind.
You messed with my mind?
What else have you messed with?
[Screams]
[Man #1 On Radio] This is Race Car, over.
[Man #2 On Radio] Race car, this is Coffee Mill. Read you five-by-five. Over.
[Man #1 On Radio] Coffee Mill, Race Car.
Starting my descent for home and having a little trouble with my TACAN. Can you give me a steer? Over.
[Man #2] Yeah. Race car, squawk two and ident.
[Man #1 On Radio] Race car squawking two and identifying.
Yeah, Race Car, this is Coffee Mill. I have you a 180 nautical miles out.
I have you bearing 2-niner-0 relative.
Over. [Man #3] Roger that.
[Sam Narrating] It was eerie. I was doing Oswald's job as if I'd been trained for it,
even beginning to enjoy myself, until I realized that I was bound to slip up sooner or later.
I can't find his altitude. Uh, Race Car, say your angels. Over.
[Man #1] This is Race Car. I am, uh, somewhere above angels 20 and descending.
Somewhere above? He's gotta be way above.
I'm reading everything from angels 4-5 and I still don't have him.
- We don't need Race Car's altitude to give him a steer, Briggs. - Aye, aye, sir.
[Man #4] Attention unidentified aircraft. You are entering a restricted zone. Do you copy? Over.
- What's he doing? - Uh, Ozzie Rabbit.
Um, right here. Yeah.
You're-You're supposed to write that so that we can read it too, Bugs. Okay?
- [Chuckling] - This is no time for games, Oswald.
[Portal Opens] Backwards. Sam, you've got to write everything backwards.
- [Chuckling] - He's weird.
[Chuckling Continues] What's so damn funny?
- [Al] Sam! - What's the problem, Oswald?
Hey. Nothing.
Sir! Nothing, sir!
Geez. Sorry, sir.
Al, you got to get me out of here fast.
I can't control Oswald's emotions anymore.
[Al] I can see that. If it'll make you feel any better, he's taking on a little bit of you.
Well, it does not make me feel better at all! [Al] Calm down!
Oswald, is your mike out?
No. No, it's fine, sir.
Better let me do the talking. I always do.
Oh, I got him! He just popped up on my scope descending through angels 4-5.
Uh, Race Car, this is Coffee Mill. Turn right to a heading of 0- 6-5 and squawk one, over.
[Man On Radio] Race Car. 0-6-5. Squawking one, over.
Uh, Lieutenant, uh, based on Race Car's rate of descent since his initial call,
he had to have been up around angels 9-0.
That's almost 30,000 feet above the world record.
You miscalculated, Briggs.
I don't think so, sir. I figured out his rate of descent and l- and I clocked him from his first-
You miscalculated, Briggs.
- Yes, sir. - Listen up, people.
We're not here to calculate how high, how fast or how far Race Car can fly.
All that is top secret and not to be discussed, even among yourselves. Do you read me?
[All] Five-by-five, sir.
Al. [Man] Flagcheck Leader, stand by to hand off to Toby O'Niel.
Race Car's a U-2, isn't it?
You heard the lieutenant. We're not supposed to discuss that.
What am I going to do, tell the Russians? Well, that's what we're here to find out.
Ziggy says if the K.G.B. makes contact...
it's gonna be in Yamato at a bar where Oswald hangs out called Negashaia.
Negashaia. And-
What? Uh, interesting.
## [Rock: Electric Guitar]
## [Man, Woman Singing Rock]
Lee-san!
Where you been?
Your mama-san missed you.
Cried many tears on my pillow.
## [Rock Continues]
[Chattering]
[Speaking Japanese]
I really missed you, Lee-san.
I really missed you too.
[Chuckles] You ichiban liar man.
But I love it. Why you stay away from Negashaia?
Uh, you know, uh, duty and-
Pillow talk says Macs-1 's marines up to something hush-hush.
Pillow talk? Sex.
[Chuckles]
They also say Macs-1 's marines go to sea soon.
Maybe, uh, Philippines or maybe Indonesia.
Is this true?
Why would you want to know?
Oh. Macs-1 's marines are my friends-o.
You leave Atsugi, many broken hearts-o.
I have to send my girls back to the farms.
So you're only interested in the welfare of your girls?
Why else?
You think poorJoda is a spy? Are you?
Well,
I do almost anything for money.
[Chuckling]
[Sam Narrating] Even with a little Lee Harvey Oswald in me,
I... wasn't prepared for this.
Not prepared at all.
Hey, honey, you buy me drink. I show you a good time. [Giggles]
I ichiban mama-san. No. No, thanks.
I know special tricks, no?
[Whispering, Indistinct]
Hey! [Japanese]
It's all right. [Grunts]
[Screams]
[Japanese]
- [Body Thuds] - [Man] Look out. Cat fight. Cat fight.
Why did you let her touch you?
Mariska, it's my fault.
I was going to scratch her eyes out, but I just did my nails.
[Screaming]
[Patrons Shouting]
Hey! Come on! Let 'em fight, Bugs!
[Man] Get out of there, Ozzie Rabbit!
You stay away from my guy! You stay! Go away! Out!
[Japanese]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, let a marine who appreciates a woman buy you a drink, huh?
Yeah!
You promise no more trouble? No trouble.
I got me ichiban marine. [Chuckles]
Come on, come on. Sit, sit.
I'm sorry about that. I don't believe you.
As my Uncle Duchin says- [Russian]
I used to, uh, speak some Russian.
But I don't seem to remember very much right now.
All you have to remember is- [Russian]
I love you. I love you too, Lee.
How do you say "Oh, boy" in Russian?
[Russian]
Talk some more Russian to me.
Sometimes I think Russian is the only reason you come to see me.
That can't be true. I think so.
There's plenty of other girls here who make love to you.
[Clears Throat]
But only Mariska can make love to you in Russian-
tell you stories in Russian.
You do tell wonderful stories. Uncle Duchin taught me.
He's the best storyteller in all of Minsk. Wait till you meet him.
He'll fill your stomach with vodka and your head with tales of his youth.
I can't wait. When? When we go to Russia.
If you still want to go to Russia.
I've always wanted to go to Russia.
It's the worker's paradise.
As long as you aren't half oriental.
Do you think it's better in America?
Lee.
I know that you were unhappy in America,
but it would be different there with me.
l- I could make you very happy.
My mother slaved for the capitalists her whole life and all she got was nothing.
Nothing! [Lighter Clatters]
You are the only marine who says America is a bad place. What other marines do you talk to?
Just the ones who buy me drink. What else do they buy?
Huh? Nothing!
Huh? Nothing! Just drink.
Lee, it's my job.
You're my only boyfriend.
Sam, you'll never believe wh-what-
Looks like my libido finally kicked in. Sam?
Please, Lee, I won't talk about going to America again.
I believe you. We go to Russia.
We go to Siberia. I believe you.
Anyplace you want. [Al] What's goin' on, Sam?
Right now, you just have to excuse me. l-I need to go to the bathroom.
[Gasps]
Kenji! [Japanese]
[Coughing]
[Man Groaning] [Toilet Flushes]
[Portal Opens] [Al] Sam, what's going on?
I'm losing it, Al. That's what's going on. Yeah, I already did.
I spent half of my first tour like that. I can't control him.
Hey, don't worry. He's- He's too drunk to give you any problem. [Sam] Not him.
Huh? Oswald.
He's- He's taking over my mind.
Well, that's impossible. He- He can't take over your mind.
I'm reacting like him. I'm-I'm talking like him. I'm thinking like him.
I don't know where he stops and I start, Al.
And how I treated Mariska out there was sickening. What'd you do?
- I treated her like dirt, and she threw herself at me. - Oh! Works every time.
Hey, well, no, I mean, it-it shouldn't work. It shouldn't work.
And-And any man would be ashamed of treating a woman like that. Her name's Mariska?
She's part Russian, I think.
Oh. Hey, she could be the K.G.B. agent. I don't think so.
She's just- She's teaching Oswald Russian, you know,
and-and sleeping with him.
Oh, you're sleeping with her? No, I'm not sleeping with her. Oswald is sleeping with her.
Well, what's the difference? I just met her, okay? I'm not sleeping with her.
I don't know her. I just met her, okay?
Don't get so touchy. I want to make sure you're prepared in case you have to sleep with her.
I'm not like you. I don't have to sleep with every woman that I meet just because-
because she's there. But you may have to sleep with her to prove...
- or disprove whether or not she's an agent. - What?
Look, female spies have been doing this since Mata Hari to find out military secrets.
They sleep with- Yeah, except I don't know any military secrets.
Well, you don't know what you don't know. Al, if you were in the K.G.B.,
would you hire anyone...
- as conspicuous as Mariska to be your agent. - Maybe that's what they're counting on.
That our guys would think she's such an obvious choice that they wouldn't pick her and then they do.
Mariska is no agent, Al. Oswald is just interested in anything or anyone Russian.
- How do you know? - How do l-
Because I've been spouting his words like a trained parrot, okay?
I've been doing his job.
I mean, I know him better than his own mother does.
I even know what motivates him. Look at this.
- Oh, that's The Communist Manifesto. - Yeah. Yeah. I found this in my locker- in Oswald's locker. Right?
It's dog-eared. It's-It's underlined. See that?
I mean, this is his religion. This is his Bible.
His- His mecca is Moscow and his Muhammad is Marx.
[Rifle Range Sergeant] I don't ever want to be that cold again.
A piece of shrapnel tore-
[Door Closes]
Well, well.
What's a bait fish like you...
doing in a shark's bar?
Huh?
You guys know who this is?
This marine is more famous than Chesty Puller.
This is Private First Class Lee Harvey Oswald.
Otherwise known as Ozzie Rabbit.
- [Laughing] - [Al] Sam, you'd better get out ofhere right now.
Sarge, I don't want any trouble. So, uh, you guys go ahead and have a good time.
No, not so quick, Bugs.
Would you deprive Sergeants Wojowski and Miller...
of the honor of shaking the hand of the man...
[Ziggy Beeps] whose bravery in the face of the enemy...
is sung about from the halls of Negashaia-
♪ T o the shores of Atsugi ♪
The enemy? Sam-
That's right, Bugs.
Me. Uh, Sam, Ziggy's, uh, spitting out all kinds of new data here.
Maybe we missed something, or, uh, maybe you're changing history.
Is this why I'm here? Yeah.
So I can teach you a lesson.
The only thing you can teach me is how to play drop the soap in the shower.
[Al] Sam! What do you- You wanna get killed?
Ziggy's predicting that this Lopez will knock the hell out of Oswald!
I'm not Oswald.
[Chuckling] You're not?
No.
Then who the hell are you?
Huh?
You're about to find out.
Hey! Hey! I got him!
Let him go!
If I can't whip this wimp, I'll enlist in the Waves.
Watch out for the left.
- And watch out for the right. - Thanks a lot.
- De nada. - No fighting! No fighting!
Against the rules!
[Patrons Shouting]
If I wasn't so drunk, I'd swear that was Ozzie Rabbit fightin' that gorilla.
Well, that is Ozzie Rabbit! No way.
Hit him, Ozzie!
[Man] Hit 'em, Ozzie!
Shore patrol! Hey! [Japanese]
Right to the belly! You gotta go downstairs! That hurts!
Yeah!
Ho!
[Russian]
He's kickboxing! Can he do that? Well, I didn't hear nobody say nothin' about no rules, man!
Oh, no! No! Foul! Foul!
## [Rock And Roll On Jukebox]
That's my buddy. He's in Macs-1 with me. Oh, you radar operator too?
[Man] You want me to hold him for you?
Lee!
Kenji! Kenji!
- [Man] Come on, Ozzie! Come on! - [Crowd Groaning]
[Man #2] Get up, Ozzie! Get up!
Come on! Get up!
Get up! Get up!
[Shouting Stops] I'm ready for my lesson, Sarge.
Huh?
Lee, come on. Come on, Lee.
- Get out of here! - Hey, come on. It's over, Oswald.
It's not over till I get my lesson.
Sam, put down that gun.
We'll grab a drink, we'll go upstairs, take our women up there- Back off!
- Sam, listen to me! - I'm waiting.
- Teach me my damn lesson. - [Gun Cocks]
- Come on, Sarge. - Gooshie, I can't get through to him!
Tell Ziggy I've got to have a way to get through to him!
[Ziggy Beeps]
You're kidding.
Uh- Uh, Sam-
Sam, what are the four, uh, fundamental forces of interactions in quantum physics?
Come on, Sergeant.
What are the four fundamental forces of interactions in quantum physics, Sam?
Yeah, yeah. Sam, the four fundamental forces of interactions in-in quantum physics?
Gravitation, electromagnetism,
the strong and weak nuclear forces.
What's the Pauli exclusion principle?
No two fermions can occupy a given quantum state at the same time.
Neither can two human souls.
[Helicopter Passing Overhead]
Can you help me?
I used to be stationed here. I'm looking for a couple of my buddies.
I'm sort of new here myself. You got a company roster or maybe the duty list?
Uh, let me see.
I'm still him.
Uh, Sam, you're still Oswald,
I know. Only you're no longer in Atsugi.
Uh, you're stationed at, uh, Macs-9 in Tustin, California.
It's 1959.
Why do I keep leaping into Lee Harvey Oswald?
Well, Ziggy still insists that it's to uncover a conspiracy- uh, stop what happened in Dallas.
Sam, is Oswald still in- I don't know. I don't know.
Why did I leap out ofJapan?
Well, there's some data indicating that originally Oswald killed Sergeant Lopez.
And I was there to stop that?
Well, Lopez saved the lives of 17 marines at Khe Sanh,
and he was given the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously.
I gotta find the duty roster. Duty roster.
Yeah.
[Al] Oh, here- duty roster.
- Here you go. - Thanks.
Do you often read The Daily Worker?
It's the only newspaper that tells the truth.
The truth? How the United States...
oppresses the proletariat of the world with its military might.
He's back.
You sound like a communist. I know. I know.
But you're not? I'm not what I sometimes sound like.
- Oh, good. That's better, Sam. - But if I were, I'd be a Marxist.
If you're a Marxist, what the hell are you doing the in the Marine Corps?
I don't know.
We are all ears, Mr. Oswald.
We're waiting. Waiting?
- Yes, for your knowledge. - My knowledge. Right.
When you told our consulate in Helsinki that you wanted to defect, you said-
[Russian]
"I am willing to share all knowledge I acquired during my service...
"in the United States Marine Corps.
"I do this to repudiate my former country...
and to demonstrate my loyalty to the Soviet Union."
Could I have a glass of water, please?
[Russian]
[Man #1 Speaking Russian]
[Man #2 Speaking Russian]
[Footsteps Approaching]
Thank you. [Stomps Feet]
Ahh.
[Fingers Snap]
I'm sorry. This is such a nice desk.
[Clears Throat]
Once my father, as a punishment for a menial infraction...
which I can't remember,
made me stand naked on the boat dock behind our house.
I was, uh, 10.
Old enough to be embarrassed had anyone witnessed my nakedness.
But there was no one, because only my father was crazy enough to winter with his family...
on a lake inside the Arctic Circle.
Yes, it was winter.
The water was frozen two meters deep...
and the snow came up to the nipples on my chest.
The frostbite took two toes on my right foot, one on my left,
and I missed most of the spring recuperating from pneumonia.
Despite that...
and other punishments I received at his hand as a child,
I still loved the bastard.
After all, he was my father.
Our native lands are like that.
No matter how abusive, how oppressive, how unjust their treatment,
we have this patriotic, almost biological need to love them.
It is only when we attain our political maturity...
we realize that no matter...
how traitorous our actions may seem in our native country,
the betrayal is theirs.
It's not ours.
My name is Lee Harvey Oswald.
In the Marine Corps,
my serial number was...
1653230.
My M.O. S: 6741,
aviation electronics operator.
My first duty assignment was with Macs-1 in Atsugi, Japan.
I arrived there on September the 12th, 1957.
I still don't get how you do this.
Well, it-it-it is a little difficult to explain.
You think I'm too stupid to understand?
Well, nobody understands it, except Dr. Beckett.
Try me. Try you. Okay.
Let's start with the string theory. What's the string theory?
String theory?
[Sam's Voice] It helped close the conceptual gulf between relativity and quantum mechanics.
It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one Planck length long.
The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles.
[Oswald's Voice] Hmm? How did I know that?
[Sam] Most of our time, we spent watching for bogies out of China or North Korea.
However, occasionally we would run a plot for, uh, Race Car.
- Have you seen Race Car? - Many times.
Landings, taking off.
It had long and droopy wings.
The tips sagged...
so that when it landed, it sparked the runway.
- What is Race Car's official designation? - U-2.
The "U" stands for utility.
Our officers told us it was a weather plane,
but scuttlebutt had it that it was a...
a secret spy plane flying missions over China and Russia.
Is this Race Car?
Yes.
- Where'd you get this? - From a friend.
You have friends, don't you?
No. Not really.
- Not a girlfriend? - Not anymore.
We'll have to do something about it, Lieutenant Guri, eh? [Chuckles] Da.
How high Race Car flew over, uh, these missions?
We estimated around angels 9-0.
Oh, that's 30,000 meters.
- And the range? - I don't know that.
It would stay out at least 12 hours, sometimes more.
But, of course, it could have landed before returning to Atsugi,
but I don't think so.
- Can you tell us about Race Car radar-jamming equipment? - Didn't know it had any.
Photographic equipment?
So you know nothing about Race Car defensive capabilities? Uh, Sam?
- Now Oswald is you. - Can you give me any performance figures on U-2?
- I mean, he's not completely you. - It had a short takeoff...
around... 500 feet, no more. But when I asked him if he understood-
- Sam? - He climbed out at about 45 degrees...
through angels 4-5, which was as high as our MPS-11 tracked.
- What are you telling them? - Anything else?
- Code names and frequencies. - No!
We were Coffee Mill, and of course, the U-2 was Race Car. Sam, zip it!
We usually used 218.5 as our main channel.
- Now, Comrade Oswald. - God! Now you're him and he's you. Holy mackerel!
Why don't you write all this technical data down for us.
No. No. This evening after dinner.
Eh, you stay at the Hotel Berlin, are you not? I believe so.
Yeah. The food there is inedible.
Why don't you ask your intourist guide, uh, what's her name?
- Rimma Shirokova. - Yeah. Tell Rimma Shirokova to take you to Najinski's.
They serve this wonderful venison with a- with a mushroom stew. You would love it.
And now, you would be so kind and wait in the other room for a moment.
[Portal Closes] [Russian]
Sam, I know Oswald is influencing you, but this is ridiculous.
Al? Oh, it's about time.
Hey, you gotta control this Oswald stuff before you give away every secret in the government.
It just came out, okay?
I think I could have stopped, but some part of me that didn't want to.
And you know about that part.
[Russian] Uh, I was just thinking out loud.
[Russian]
[Both Speaking Russian]
How bad is it? It depends on how much you told them.
I think I told them everything Oswald knew about the U-2.
Gary Powers.
The Russians shoot him down next May.
And that incident extends the Cold War for years. That must be why I leaped in here, Al-
to stop the Soviets from getting U-2 data from Oswald. Oh, no. Ziggy doesn't think so.
There's a 96% probability that you didn't give the Soviets anything on the U-2...
that they didn't already have. But they shoot Powers down, right?
Yeah. It was just a lucky shot with a Sam-2. A 100-to-1 shot.
It had nothing to do with anything you- uh, Oswald told them. Thank God.
Well, then why am I here in Russia?
Ziggy's working on it. I personally think it had some-
You think it has something to do with the conspiracy? Yeah.
Why don't you change that record, okay? Well, I still believe it.
Al, in all of these leaps so far, we haven't uncovered any conspiracy,
and we have not proven that Oswald was not the assassin.
Well, maybe this one will. Yeah. But I can't keep wandering around leap after leap like this.
We gotta-We gotta take the initiative somehow!
Right! Well, what do we do?
Oh, you're not becoming Oswald again, are you?
I don't actually... become Oswald.
I just sort of drift along next to him and his thoughts come out.
Oh, you're not drifting, are you?
No. I'm theorizing. Or trying to.
Oh, sorry. That's okay.
I was just thinking though, what if I prematurely exited that first leap into Oswald?
The one where Marina took your picture? Yeah. What if I leaped out...
before I had a chance to put right what once went wrong?
Well, success doesn't have anything to do with leaping.
I said before I had a chance to undo the wrong?
Why would you leap before you had the chance? If I knew that,
I'd know how to get off this leaping yo-yo so I could do whatever it was I was supposed to do.
Which is stop the assassination. Well, let's hope that's it.
[Ziggy Beeping] Sam, Ziggy says you're on the right track.
It's just gonna take time to test your hypothesis,
but you should continue and play this scenario out.
Like I got a big choice. I didn't finish.
But you gotta play it out just the way Oswald did. No changing history.
So tell me what I'm supposed to do. You go to your hotel room.
Yeah. And then before you have dinner with your intourist guide-
[Beeps]
you commit suicide.
I don't like this, Al. I don't like it either.
But Ziggy insists that you continue doing exactly what Oswald did...
on October 21, 1959.
Which means that in a couple of minutes,
you have to slash your left wrist with a razor blade.
Yeah. Well, maybe we should just skip that part. What are you afraid of?
What am I afraid of? Well, you're not gonna die.
How can you be so sure? Because Oswald didn't.
Olga saved him. Olga? Who's Olga?
Your intourist guide.
Wait a second. I thought that, uh, Major Kosenko said that somebody-
that her name was Rimma something, right?
Shirokova. Shirokova something.
Yeah, but Oswald called her Olga in his diaries, and maybe that was his nickname for Rimma.
And maybe I've already altered history and nobody named Olga or Rimma or-or any name like that...
is gonna come through that door after I slash my wrist! Okay. Well, maybe not.
For all we know you may be here to stop Oswald from slashing his wrist. Let's see.
Exactly. Uh, okay,
if Oswald doesn't attempt suicide, the Russians kick him out of the country.
He never meets Marina- Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second.
The Russians kick him out of the country? Yeah. Oswald's six-day visa expires tonight...
and the Russians won't extend it.
Maybe that's why he attempted suicide.
Doesn't that kinda blow your K.G.B. conspiracy theory?
Well, maybe. But it reinforces my C.I.A. theory.
Because if Oswald was C.I.A., the Russians wouldn't want him in the country.
So that's why he commits suicide, right? Because it's in the C.I.A. manual.
What difference does it make? What difference does it make?
We're talkin' about trying to find the truth out here.
And what if the truth is that at age 19, Oswald was not a C.I.A. agent,
he was not a K.G.B. agent.
Maybe he was just some- some frustrated loser, right, who was trying to get recognition any way he could.
Maybe he thought the best way to do that was by defecting.
But then when the Soviets didn't want him- Uh-uh.
and he didn't have anybody else, so he slit his wrists. No. Uh-uh. No, no.
See, the Russians wanted defectors in '59.
I cannot believe that the Russians had Lee Harvey Oswald on an "A" list for defectors.
I mean, he was a kid, right? If I remember correctly, he never even graduated high school.
Not exactly the kind of disillusioned American intellectual or scientist- Sam.
that the Soviets like to parade in front of the world press, right?
Sam. He's not anything like that at all. What?
Sam, it's time. Time-
to commit suicide? No, not commit suicide. Attempt suicide! Attempt! Attempt!
Now all we have to do is follow Oswald's diary.
[Beeping] [Mumbling]
Let's see. October 21 -
[Water Stops] Okay. Um,
"I must leave country at 8:00 p.m. tonight...
as visa has 'expird."'
He spells "expire" without the "E." Hmm.
"I am shocked! My dreams!
"I retire to my room. I have $100 left.
"I have waited for two year to be accepted.
My 'fondis"'- F-O-N-D-l-S, uh, " dreams are shattered...
because of a petty official, because of bad planning,"
uh, " I have planned so much.
"7:00 p.m. I decide to end it.
Slash 'rist"' R-l-S-T. I don't care how he spells it. I'm not gonna do it.
Oh, well, you have to. I'm not.
Uh, " soak 'rist' in cold water to numb the pain.
"Then slash my left 'rist. '
Then I 'plaug"'- Plaug? Plaug? What the hell is a plaug?
Who cares what it is? Al, I'm not gonna do it.
Okay. All right. Wait a minute. "Plaug rist into bathtub of hot water.
"I think when Olga comes at 8:00 to find me dead will be a big shock.
Somewhere... a violin plays."
## [Violin: Classical]
## [Continues]
[Dog Barking]
[Barking]
[Barking Continues]
[Growls]
[Growling Continues]
[Growling] Easy, fella.
[Dogs Barking In Distance]
[Russian]
Marina? [Russian]
[Russian Continues]
[Panting]
"If I am alive and they have captured me,
I believe that the embassy will come to your assistance."
[Panting]
Well, you don't need this, do you?
[Russian]
[Man On Radio] The administration increased its crackdown on Cuban exile hit-and-run raids.
The raids based from Mexico, the Caribbean and the southern United States...
are a stumbling block- [Continues Indistinct]
[Gunshot]
I shot a man.
[Radio Continues, Indistinct]
I don't know if I hit him or not.
It should be on the news.
[Russian]
General Walker.
That-That must be why l- I left you that note.
In case they caught me.
But they didn't.
I'm too smart for them.
He was a fascist, like Hitler.
Don't you see?
If someone had killed Hitler before he came to power,
millions of lives would have been saved.
[Russian]
- Yes, you can. - [Russian]
He lived alone.
I'm listening to the radio! [Russian]
Sam. Sam, it worked. It worked.
It... almost worked. It's April 10, 1963.
And that's only a month after your original leap into Oswald.
If I killed him, there should be something on the radio.
Killed him?
I buried it. Killed who?
- Wrapped it in that raincoat and I buried it. - Gooshie!
What the hell's he talking about?
Holy mackerel! Sam, you leaped into Oswald...
just seconds after he tried to blow General Edwin Walker's head off.
- Tried? Tried? I missed? - Not you. Oswald!
The bullet splintered the window and then punched into the wall just inches above Walker's head.
It was an easy shot.
He was just sitting there working at his desk.
How could I miss?
You didn't miss him, Sam! Oswald did!
- You don't have to yell, Al. I can hear you. - Oh! Oh.
Well, that's better. Sam, you're scaring the hell out of me.
[Baby Cries] Uh, you were acting-
you were acting like Oswald's mind was still merged into yours.
[Woman On Radio] President Kennedy's popularity slipping from the high it showed...
during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The White House confirmed plans- [Continues] It is.
- No, it can't be. - Only this time it's different.
No, but Ziggy said it would be gone.
Yeah? Why would it be gone?
Well, Ziggy computed that the reason that you were leaping back and forth in Oswald's life...
was because the part of your mind that's in him and the part of his mind that's in you were trying to, uh, reunite.
So, what did you do? I didn't do- I didn't- Nothin'.
Ziggy is-Well, Ziggy figured that if we could reconnect your minds,
then we could get the leap back on track.
So through, uh, D.N.A. typing,
Ziggy identified, you know, the little mesons and neurons in Oswald's brain...
that biologically matched yours, and then we put Oswald in the accelerator and we leaped those little things back to you.
You can't leap isolated mesons and neurons without drawing other neural energy with it.
More neural energy? Yeah.
Sucking up more of Oswald's mind. That's why this leap is different. There's more of him in me.
More? [Russian]
There's more?
I can't destroy this.
This is my plan. Oh, no, Sam.
[Russian]
[Ziggy Beeps]
I planned this like a military operation.
Reconnaissance photos, time tables, escape routes.
Even my political justification for the execution.
Sam. Sam, look at me. It should have worked.
Sam, look at me!
My aim was perfect.
It was an accident that I missed.
He dropped his head at the last second, or he'd be dead.
He'd be dead,
and the world would remember Lee Harvey Oswald...
as the man who executed General Edwin Walker.
"Hands off Cuba."
Hands off Cuba. Hands off Cuba!
Hands off Cuba! Hands off Cuba!
Hands off Cuba! Oh, I don't truck with communist propaganda.
What makes you think this is communist propaganda?
Oh, because everybody know that Castro is a communist.
I'm not Castro. No. But y'all are supportin' him, aren't you?
No. I'm supporting Cuba. Although, I must admit that I admire him...
the same way I admire George Washington. Ellie, we only have a half hour.
Y'all are comparing Fidel Castro to George Washington?
Uh-huh. Castro is doing what Washington did, leading his country in a revolution.
It's not the same. No?
No! Well, why not?
I don't know. It's just not the same. Ellie!
I'll be right there. I'll order you a salad.
Gee, I don't want you to miss your lunch.
Oh, it'll be good for my figure. [Chuckles]
Uh, so how do you equate the American Revolution with, uh, the communist takeover in Cuba?
We kicked out King George. Castro kicked out Batiste. It seems the same to me.
But it's not. Castro is a communist. Hands off Cuba.
Well, whatever he is, Castro just wants Cuba to have...
the same opportunity for self-determination that we did.
Hands off Cuba. Y'all sound like you know him.
We've had the same teacher.
Would you like to join the Fair Play for Cuba Committee?
I'm secretary of the New Orleans chapter.
I could sign you up right now for only a dollar and a quarter.
[Laughs]
Y'all have social functions? Well, now, we don't. But that is an awful good idea.
More folks will come to a dance than will come to a political meeting.
Course, once you got 'em in there-
You are something, Ellie. You are really something. [Giggles]
Hey, you know my name, but I don't know yours. I only know half your name.
The other half's La Forge. Ellie La Forge.
Hidell. Alex Hidell.
Y'all are married. Yes. My wife lives in Dallas.
Y'all didn't tell me y'all were married.
Fair play for Cuba!
Traitor! Traitor! Fair play for Cuba!
You see this fellow. He is a communist.
Fair play for Cuba! Communist!
And he wants to do to your country what he did to us in Cuba!
Fair play for Cuba! Communist!
Gooshie, you got a lock on him? Now just hold it there- Uh-oh!
A couple of days ago, he tried tojoin us.
He said he wanted to fight for Cuba! To bring down Castro!
Liar! Okay, Carlos.
If you want to hit me, hit me.
[Al] He's doing exactly what Oswald did! With pleasure.
Freeze! Up against the wall and spread 'em! He's a communist!
Up against the wall and shut up! Sam, can you hear me?
It's the 9th of August, 1963.
There's only three months until the Kennedy assassination, Sam, and each leap is putting you closer.
If you leap into Dallas on November 22 and Oswald is still in control,
you won't be able to change anything, Sam!
You've got to fight him! Fight him, Sam!
[Officer] What's your name, boy?
My name? Dr. Samuel Beckett!
My name is Lee Harvey Oswald.
[Cheering, Applause] [John Kennedy] Three years ago, I said that, uh-
Introduced myself in Paris by saying that I was the man...
who had accompanied, uh, Mrs. Kennedy to Paris.
I'm getting, uh, somewhat that same sensation, uh, as I travel around, uh, Texas.
[Laughter, Applause]
Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear.
[Audience Laughing]
[Gunshots]
I'm glad to be here in, uh, Jim Wright's city.
About, uh, 35, uh- [Cheering, Applause]
[Kennedy] I appreciate your being here this morning.
Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself.
It takes longer. [Crowd Laughing]
That's because she looks better than we do.
[Laughter, Applause]
[Clinks]
Looks like it's gonna rain.
What's in the package?
Curtain rods.
[Engine Starts]
Ziggy computes the best option under the circumstances is to do nothing.
Well, Ziggy doesn't want to make another mistake.
Perhaps. But if Dr. Beckett leaped into Oswald to uncover the conspiracy,
then doing nothing is an effective course of action. How the hell do you figure that?
Whether Dr. Beckett is himself or Lee Harvey Oswald is immaterial.
Either way, you'll be there to observe, to watch the sixth floor window, the grassy knoll, the railroad overpass.
You'll see it all. You'll know the truth. But I won't be able to stop it.
I realize that, Admiral, but you yourself said that wasn't what Dr. Beckett was leaped back to do.
Well, what if I was wrong? What if that's precisely the reason that Sam was leaped back?
Then Oswald would have to be the sole assassin. That's right.
No conspiracy? No!
Just one angry, envious man who- who wanted to propel himself into infamy.
But one lone man?
I know it's more comforting to believe in plots.
Because if Kennedy could be killed that easily by one sicko, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Admiral, what are you gonna do?
I'm gonna try and find the truth.
Hey, Lee.
What's the hurry?
[Steam Whistle Blows]
[Man Announcing] The morning overcast has given way to blue skies...
and the local democratic party is predicting a record-breaking big "D" turnout...
for President Kennedy and his first lady.
[Russian] Mrs. Kennedy has been given a large bouquet of roses...
by admirers here in Love Field...
as she and the president stopped to greet this crowd, which is completely covering the airport fence.
This motorcade will get off to a late start.
There arejust too many people here in an amazing display of goodwill to the Kennedys.
[Man] I think I'm gonna go down there and catch some of that parade.
[Man Continues, Indistinct]
[Oswald] I admire the president very much. [Al] You admire him, but you're going to kill him.
That's what this is about. You're Secret Service and you're detaining me...
because you think I'm going to shoot the president!
I know you're gonna shoot the president.
What I want to know is: Are you acting alone?
I don't even own a gun!
You own a 6.5 millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and an S&W.38 Special.
The rifle is wrapped in a blanket at Ruth Paine's house...
and the pistol is at your rooming house at 1026 North Beckley!
You ordered both of these guns through the mail under the alias of Alex J. Hidell.
Marina. She told you these lies. Marina told me nothing.
But when questioned, she'll talk about the shot you took at General Walker,
and she'll talk about locking you in the bathroom when Nixon came to Dallas...
'cause she was afraid you were gonna try and shoot him too. I want a lawyer.
There's no lawyer here. There's just me and you and the truth.
I know my rights. I'm a member of the A.C.L.U., and I have-
You're going to shoot the president from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.
You're crazy! Yeah, you're damn right I'm crazy.
I'm crazy enough to blow your brains out your ear if I don't get the truth.
[Crowd Cheering]
[Announcer] A large police escort is now- [Continues, Indistinct] [Russian]
What color is her suit?
[Announcer] And now ticker tape is beginning to flow from the windows and engulf the whole motorcade.
Here comes the first car with the police chief,
and here is the president of the United States.
The crowd is going absolutely wild.
This is a friendly crowd in downtown Dallas...
as the president and the first lady pass by.
There were some fears of demonstrations here in downtown Dallas,
but this crowd is radiating love to the president.
Dallas Police Department is working with some force to ensure that an unfortunate incident,
similar to those that accompanied U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson do not occur on this trip.
- I don't believe in killing someonejust because I disagree with their politics. - Are you acting alone?
l-I want a lawyer- [Screams]
- I'm deaf! I'm deaf! - You're going to be dead in a minute if you don't tell me the truth!
Okay. Okay. Don't hurt me.
I'm not gonna shoot the president.
- But... I know who is. - Who?
Hidell.
The guy who ordered the guns through the mail.
He's the one who-
- I'm lying, Al. - Sam.
[Sam] There is no conspiracy.
I'm acting alone, and you've got to stop me.
But I can't reach you, Sam. He's taken over completely. You have to.
You have to or it's gonna happen all over again.
You have to find...
[Oswald's Voice] Hidell.
Find Alex J. Hidell.
That's the man who's gonna shoot the president.
Sam! Sam, listen to me! Sam!
I've got to reach you, Sam!
Sam, what are the four fundamental forces of interactions in quantum physics?
Sam.
Sam, explain the Pauli exclusion principle.
[Cheering]
Sam, what is supersymmetry? And how does it apply-
This is never gonna work. It's all happening again.
It's November 22, 1963, and it's all happening again!
[Sighs]
Sam! Sam! It's November 22, 1963!
Sam, and your dad is still alive! He's teaching you to drive a tractor, Sam.
It's - It's Elkridge, Indiana. You're 10 years old, and your dad is teaching you to drive a tractor.
At this very moment, your dad is still alive and he's teaching you to drive a tractor, Sam!
[Cheering]
On the farm in Indiana!
He's still alive!
Dad.
No!
- [Gunshot] - No!
[Screaming]
[Man] Just now we have received reports here at Parkland...
that Governor Connelly was shot in the upper left chest...
and the first unconfirmed reports say the president was hit in the head.
I repeat, an unconfirmed report that the president was hit in the head.
The president's wife, Jackie Kennedy, was not hurt. She walked into the hospital.
Thanks, Al.
If you hadn't reached me,
I would have shot- No, it wouldn't have been you pulling that trigger, Sam. Not really.
And then when l-
l-I had a chance to save him, I leaped.
Why, Al? Why?
Oswald's mind finally reconnected.
And when it did, he leaped back and you leaped into the nearest person that could accomplish your mission.
But I didn't accomplish it. Well, maybe you did.
I didn't save him.
No. But it doesn't look like that's what you were here to do.
Ziggy thinks you were here to save her.
Your Swiss-cheesed mind probably doesn't remember, but the first time...
Oswald killed Jackie too.